I believe, if you read the api section carefuly, that there is a reference to a value that has to be set in a structure prior to making this call which I could not figure out how to do from within foxpro). I could never get it to work, so for $25.00 I bought the mabry control which works perfectly. > >>Hi Alexander >> >>Thanks for the reply. >> >>It still doesn't work though - Are we perhaps doing something wrong with our INT to Word conversion - perhaps because it should be a double word. Do we need to add CHR(0) to the front or end of the return string - also does the length of the structure include the dword ?? >> >>TIA > >Don't need to add chr(0). > >Try to define RasDial function as: > >DECLARE INTEGER RasDial IN rasapi32.dll LONG, ; >LONG, ; >STRING @, ; >INTEGER, ; >LONG, ;